For examples of greater accountability, we do not need to look at the textbooks. We have a living example in the recent election in Australia, where the two major groups had 72 seats. There were four other seats and there was very much an auction as to how the votes of those four people would be bought, which was pretty unseemly and certainly not accountable.
Fixed-term Parliaments Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Anderson of Swansea
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 29 March 2011.
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and
Debate on bills on Fixed-term Parliaments Bill.
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